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Kensington Family Shelter (Photo: Google Maps)Almost 65 homeless families now call Kensington home. The Kensington Family Shelter [/home/dhs-announces-homeless-shelter-opening-on-mcdonald-avenue/#.VrkEubkrJFY] on McDonald Avenue continues to welcome new families since its opening in December, and is now nearly full, said Catherine Barufaldi and Tracy Connor, local residents who are coordinating
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The Department of Sanitation has created a snow mountain at Shore Boulevard and Irwin Street. (Photo: Audrey Brown)It appears the Department of Sanitation, in their effort to quickly clear the roads after this weekend’s record-breaking blizzard [/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/], has created a treacherous crossing on Shore Boulevard by piling almost
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Photo Credit: Daniel Avila/NYC Parks208 volunteers, fresh pine, and hot chocolate. Members of the Park Slope community gathered in Prospect Park on January 9 and 10 to participate in the 20th annual MulchFest TreeCycle [/blog/events/treecycle-holiday-tree-sponsored/]. This community event is hosted by a partnership between the New York
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Volunteers prepare the food packages at City Councilman Chaim Deutsch’s office. (Photo: Councilman Chaim Deutsch [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=555197667982398&set=pcb.555197977982367&type=3&theater] / Facebook)More than 100 volunteers, including members of Flatbush Shomrim [https://twitter.com/flatbushshomrim], fanned out around
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Google MapsThere has been an outpouring of support from the community for The Kensington [/neighbors/the-spirit-of-the-season/], the new family homeless shelter [/home/dhs-announces-homeless-shelter-opening-on-mcdonald-avenue/] run by CAMBA [http://www.camba.org/] that recently opened on McDonald Avenue. Volunteer organizers have announced that the shelter is now accepting donations and
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg].Whether you plan to spend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day reflecting on the nation’s unrest, taking in a movie at a local theater, or, I don’t know, selfishly capping off a three-day weekend without a thought
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Start the new year by starting a new volunteer role as a Brooklyn Community Board 2 member. Fortunately, the application process is made even easier now that Borough President Eric Adams has brought it into the 21st century — bringing it online. You can still apply via mail, but the new
Events
Trees from 2015’s Treecycle on 4th Avenue event. (Photo courtesy of S.J. Avery) Want to make sure your Christmas tree becomes mulch, but don’t want to drag it to Mulchfest 2016 [http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest?utm_source=CornerMedia&utm_medium=SponsoredPostAd&utm_
Events
Trees from 2015’s Treecycle on 4th Avenue event. (Photo courtesy of S.J. Avery) Want to make sure your Christmas tree becomes mulch, but don’t want to drag it to Mulchfest 2016 [http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest?utm_source=CornerMedia&utm_medium=SponsoredPostAd&utm_
Central Brooklyn
Looking for ways to give back in the new year? Local organization Compost for Brooklyn is looking for new volunteers. Margaret Dunn-Carver, volunteer coordinator, writes, > Give back in the new year by volunteering with us! We have open spots for experienced and new volunteers. The commitment is only 2
Events
Photo via parkservice [https://www.instagram.com/p/xof8_tqE3W/?tagged=mulchfest2015]Fort Greene Park holds the record for most trees mulched at a single site in Brooklyn — last year our team mulched 1,743 trees! [/blog/2015/01/13/fort-greene-parks-mulchfest-2015-sets-record/] — so let’s see if we can meet or
Holidays
Looking for a way to touch the lives of Brooklyn families this holiday? Consider donating a Target gift card to new teen moms at CHiPS [http://chipsonline.org/]. “I met 4 of the 5 moms who reside with their babies at CHiPS on Tuesday at a holiday party,” wrote Park